"O Holy Night" for Viola & Harp Cantique de Noël Adolphe Charles Adam Viola and Harp Skill level :
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Composer | ![]() Adam, Adolphe Charles (1803 - 1856) | ||
Instrumentation | Viola and Harp | ||
Sheet central | O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël) (111 sheet music) | ||
Style | Christmas - Carols | ||
Arranger | ![]() | ||
Publisher | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL | ||
Date | 1847 | ||
Copyright | Public Domain | ||
Added by magataganm, 13 Nov 2014
"O Holy Night" ("Cantique de Noël") is a well-known
Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the
French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians)
by Placide Cappeau (1808–1877). Cappeau, a wine
merchant and poet, had been asked by a parish priest to
write a Christmas poem. Unitarian minister John
Sullivan Dwight, editor of Dwight's Journal of Music,
created a singing edition based on Cappeau's French
text in 1855. In both the French original and in the
two familiar English v...(+)
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